And the next presidential airport is ... - CNN.com And the next presidential airport is ... By Katia Hetter, CNN Updated 5:34 PM ET, Tue March 4, 2014 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: Whom are those airports named after? What's in an airport name? – The airport in Wichita, Kansas, will soon be named after the United States' 34th president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Click through the gallery to see more of the people behind airport names. Hide Caption 1 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? John F. Kennedy International (New York) – John F. Kennedy International Airport, located in the Queens borough of New York City, bears the name of the 35th president, who was assassinated on November 22, 1963. It was formerly New York International Airport, but was commonly known as Idlewild Airport. Hide Caption 2 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after?

Ronald Reagan Washington National – Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in the nation's capital is named for the 40th president. Hide Caption 3 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? George Bush Intercontinental (Houston) – George Bush Intercontinental Airport, one of Houston's two airports, is named after the 41st president, George H.W. Bush. Hide Caption 4 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Bill and Hillary Clinton National (Little Rock) – The airport in Little Rock, Arkansas is named Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, honoring the 42nd president and his wife, the former U.S. senator and secretary of state. Hide Caption 5 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Gerald R. Ford International (Grand Rapids) – Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan, honors the 38th president. Hide Caption 6 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional – Theodore Roosevelt, who was president from 1901 to 1909, has his name on the Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport in North Dakota.

Hide Caption 7 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Abraham Lincoln Capital (Springfield) – No matter that 16th president Abraham Lincoln (shown here circa 1860s) didn't live to see commercial flight. The Springfield, Illinois, airport is still named Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in his honor. Hide Caption 8 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International – Most airports, of course, are not presidential namesakes. William B. Hartsfield, who served six terms as mayor of Atlanta from 1937 to 1962, was instrumental in developing Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: first by helping to select the landing field and, later, leading the way for a new terminal. The Atlanta airport is now the busiest airport in the world. Hide Caption 9 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International – One of Hartsfield's mayoral successors, Mayor Maynard Jackson, built on Hartsfield's legacy with an even bigger $500 million terminal that opened in 1980.

The new international terminal is named solely after Jackson. Hide Caption 10 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Chicago O'Hare International – A World War II hero, Lt. Cmdr. Edward "Butch" O'Hare received the Medal of Honor in 1942 for his exploits as a Navy pilot. He died the next year when his plane was shot down by Japanese bombers. At the suggestion of Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert McCormick, what was then called Orchard Depot Airport (hence O'Hare's airport code, ORD) was named after O'Hare in 1949. Hide Caption 11 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? McCarran International (Las Vegas) – Pat McCarran was a U.S. senator from Nevada from 1933 to 1954. The politician was a sponsor of the Civil Aeronautics Act (1938) and Federal Airport Act (1945). He was also a staunch anti-Communist and sponsored tough anti-immigration laws. McCarran International in Las Vegas was named for him in 1948.

Hide Caption 12 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Louis Armstrong International (New Orleans) – New Orleans' international airport was originally named Moisant, after an aviator who died in 1910. (The airport's code, MSY, is derived from Moisant Stock Yards, from when the area was an agricultural center.) In 2001, the city decided to honor one of its most famous natives, Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), the great trumpeter who rose to fame in the city's clubs and helped shape jazz and popular music. Hide Caption 13 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? General Mitchell International (Milwaukee) – Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell, a Milwaukee native, was instrumental in establishing the Army air division during World War I and remained a staunch advocate of aviation after the war ended, to the point of being court-martialed for his criticism of his superiors. Milwaukee named its airport after him in 1941, five years after his death. Hide Caption 14 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after?

Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International – Civil rights leader and pastor Fred Shuttlesworth was one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and several others. The Birmingham, Alabama, airport was named for him in 2008, three years before his death. Hide Caption 15 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Lambert-St. Louis International – Albert Lambert was a noted aviator, businessman and golfer: He participated in both the 1900 and 1904 Olympics, which featured the sport. (He trained in airplanes with Orville Wright.) In 1925, he purchased the land on which the airport stands and constructed its first buildings. The city bought it from him in 1928. Hide Caption 16 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International – "Silicon Valley's Airport" added the name of Norman Mineta, a Cabinet official in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, in 2001.

Mineta, a San Jose native, was mayor of the city from 1971 to 1975 and served 20 years in the House of Representatives. Hide Caption 17 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? William P. Hobby (Houston) – Houston's oldest airport, now the secondary counterpart to George H.W. Bush International, was named for William P. Hobby, a former Texas governor, in 1967. At one time, it had been called Howard R. Hughes Airport after the famous billionaire and aviator, but for the most part it was known as Houston Municipal Airport. Hide Caption 18 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Logan International (Boston) – Lt. Gen. Edward Lawrence Logan was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and World War I. He later was a judge, a state representative, a state senator, president of the National Guard Association and head of the state American Legion. Boston's airport, once known as Jeffery Field, was named for Logan in 1943. Hide Caption 19 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after?

Rick Husband Amarillo International – The Texas airport is named after Amarillo-born Rick Husband, one of the NASA astronauts who lost his life in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle tragedy. Hide Caption 20 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Charlotte Douglas International – Ben Elbert Douglas was mayor of Charlotte from 1935 to 1941. In Charlotte, he may be just as well known as the founder of Douglas Furs, one of the city's leading furriers. Charlotte's airport was named for him in 1954 and renamed Charlotte Douglas in 1982. Hide Caption 21 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Dulles International (Washington suburbs) – Washington's more suburban airport is named for John Foster Dulles, Dwight Eisenhower's secretary of state. The much-traveled Dulles, who died in 1959, was widely admired in the nation's capital.

When the airport opened in in 1962, it was named for him, though there was some mild griping from locals -- and more came when a suggestion was floated to rename the airport after Eisenhower in the early '90s. Hide Caption 22 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? LaGuardia (New York) – The "Little Flower," Fiorello LaGuardia, is considered by many the best mayor in New York's history, having overseen the city from 1934 to 1945. The airport that bears his name was once an amusement park and then a private airfield. New York City took it over in 1937, expanded it and named it New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field in 1939. It became LaGuardia Airport in 1952. Hide Caption 23 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Dallas Love Field – No, Love Field isn't named for the warm fuzzies you get when you fly. It's actually named in honor of 1st Lt. Moss L.

Love, who died in an air crash in 1913 in San Diego. The Army gave his name to its Dallas-area air base in 1917. Love Field became a civilian airport when the city bought it in 1927. The first flights took off in 1929. Though the much-larger Dallas-Fort Worth International serves the majority of local flights, Dallas Love Field is still the headquarters for Southwest Airlines. Hide Caption 24 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Bradley International (Hartford, Connecticut) – Bradley has its roots as a U.S. Army airfield acquired in 1941. The army named it Bradley Field after Lt. Eugene M. Bradley, an Oklahoma native who died in a crash at the base on August 21, 1941. The Army turned the base over for civilian use in 1947, and the name remained. Hide Caption 25 of 26 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Cleveland Hopkins International Airport – William R. Hopkins, right, was Cleveland's city manager in the 1920s.

In 1925, at a time when commercial aviation was almost unknown in the United States, he proposed building an airport 10 miles south of the lakefront Ohio city. Twenty-seven years later, the airport was named for him on his 82nd birthday. Hopkins died in 1961. Hide Caption Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport - Home Check the status of your flight to or from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. What's in an airport name? - CNN.com What's in an airport name? By Todd Leopold, CNN Updated 9:05 AM ET, Fri November 22, 2013 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International – William B. Hartsfield, who served six terms as mayor of Atlanta from 1937 to 1962, was instrumental in developing the city's airport: first by helping to select the landing field and, later, leading the way for a new terminal. The Atlanta airport is now the busiest airport in the world.

Hide Caption 1 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International – One of Hartsfield's mayoral successors, Mayor Maynard Jackson, built on Hartsfield's legacy with an even bigger $500 million terminal that opened in 1980. The new international terminal is named solely after Jackson. Hide Caption 2 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Chicago O'Hare International – A World War II hero, Edward "Butch" O'Hare received the U.S. Medal of Honor in 1942 for his exploits as a naval pilot. He died a year later when his plane was shot down by Japanese bombers. At the suggestion of Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert McCormick, what was then called Orchard Depot Airport (hence O'Hare's airport code, ORD) was named after O'Hare in 1949. Hide Caption 3 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? McCarran International (Las Vegas) – Pat McCarran was a U.S. senator from Nevada from 1933 to 1954.

The politician was a sponsor of the Civil Aeronautics Act (1938) and Federal Airport Act (1945). He was also a staunch anti-Communist and sponsored tough anti-immigration laws. The airport was named for him in 1948. Hide Caption 4 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Louis Armstrong International (New Orleans) – New Orleans' international airport was originally named Moisant, after an aviator who died in 1910. (The airport's code, MSY, is derived from Moisant Stock Yards, from when the area was an agricultural center.) In 2001, the city decided to honor one of its most famous natives, Louis Armstrong (1901-71), the great trumpeter who rose to fame in the city's clubs and helped shape jazz and popular music. Hide Caption 5 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? General Mitchell International (Milwaukee) – Gen.

William "Billy" Mitchell, a Milwaukee native, was instrumental in establishing the Army air division during World War I and remained a staunch advocate of aviation after the war ended, to the point of being court-martialed for his criticism of his superiors. Milwaukee named its airport after him in 1941, five years after his death. Hide Caption 6 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International – Civil rights leader and pastor Fred Shuttlesworth was one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and several others. The Birmingham, Alabama, airport was named for him in 2008, three years before he died. Hide Caption 7 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Lambert-St. Louis International – Albert Lambert was a noted aviator, businessman and golfer: He participated in both the 1900 and 1904 Olympics, which featured the sport. (He trained in airplanes with Orville Wright.) In 1925, he purchased the land on which the airport stands and constructed its first buildings.

The city bought it from him in 1928. Hide Caption 8 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International – "Silicon Valley's Airport" added the name of Norman Mineta, a Cabinet official in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, in 2001. Mineta, a San Jose native, was mayor of the city from 1971 to 1975 and served 20 years in the House of Representatives. Hide Caption 9 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? William P. Hobby (Houston) – Houston's oldest airport, now the secondary counterpart to George H.W. Bush International, was named for William P. Hobby, a former Texas governor, in 1967. At one time, it had been called Howard R. Hughes Airport after the famous billionaire and aviator but for the most part was known as Houston Municipal Airport. Hide Caption 10 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Logan International Airport (Boston) – Lt. Gen.

Edward Lawrence Logan was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and World War I. He later was a judge, a state representative, a state senator, president of the National Guard Association and head of the state American Legion. Boston's airport, once known as Jeffery Field, was named for Logan in 1943. Hide Caption 11 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Rick Husband Amarillo International – The Texas airport is named after Amarillo-born Rick Husband, one of the NASA astronauts who lost his life in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle tragedy. Hide Caption 12 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Charlotte Douglas International – Ben Elbert Douglas was mayor of Charlotte from 1935 to 1941. In Charlotte, he may be just as well known as the founder of Douglas Furs, one of the city's leading furriers. Charlotte's airport was named for him in 1954 and renamed Charlotte Douglas in 1982. Hide Caption 13 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after?

Dulles International (Washington suburbs) – Washington's more suburban airport is named for John Foster Dulles, Dwight Eisenhower's secretary of state. The much-traveled Dulles, who died in 1959, was widely admired in the nation's capital. When the airport opened in in 1962, it was named for him, though there was some mild griping from locals -- and more came when a suggestion was floated to rename the airport after Eisenhower in the early '90s. Hide Caption 14 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? LaGuardia (New York) – The "Little Flower," Fiorello LaGuardia, is considered the best mayor in New York's history, having overseen the city from 1934 to 1945. The airport that bears his name was once an amusement park and then a private airfield. New York City took it over in 1937, expanded it and named it New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field in 1939. It became LaGuardia Airport in 1952. Hide Caption 15 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after?

Dallas Love Field – No, Love Field isn't named for the warm fuzzies you get when you fly. It's actually named in honor of 1st Lt. Moss L. Love, who died in an air crash in 1913 in San Diego. The Army gave his name to its Dallas-area air base in 1917. Love Field became a civilian airport when the city bought it in 1927. The first flights took off in 1929. Though the much-larger Dallas-Fort Worth International serves the majority of local flights, Dallas Love Field is still the headquarters for Southwest Airlines. Hide Caption 16 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Bradley International (Hartford) – Bradley has its roots as a U.S. Army airfield acquired in 1941. The army named it Bradley Field after Lt. Eugene M. Bradley, an Oklahoma native who died in a crash at the base on August 21, 1941. The Army turned the base over for civilian use in 1947, and the name remained.

Hide Caption 17 of 18 Photos: Whom are those airports named after? Cleveland Hopkins International Airport – William R. Hopkins, right, was Cleveland, Ohio's city manager in the 1920s. In 1925, at a time when commercial aviation was almost unknown in the United States, he proposed building an airport 10 miles south of the lakefront Ohio city. Twenty-seven years later, the airport was named for him on his 82nd birthday. Hopkins died in 1961. Hide Caption New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport Hotels Near the Airport Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (IATA: MSY, ICAO: KMSY, FAA LID: MSY) is an international airport in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is located 10 nautical miles (19 km) west of New Orleans. The airport was originally named after daredevil aviator John Moisant, who died in an airplane crash on this land (which was devoted to farming at the time) in 1910. The abbreviation MSY was derived from Moisant Stock Yards.

MSY airport was renamed in 2001 after Louis Armstrong, a famous jazz musician from New Orleans. In 2012, the airport served 8,600,989 passengers. / Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong "Satchmo" – as he was affectionately called by his legions of friends – never boasted like his fellow New Orleanians, jazzmen Jelly Roll Morton and Bunk Johnson, that he invented jazz, or that he was even one of its better players. But everyone who heard him play or hears his inimitable style today can only agree that Louis Daniel "Satchmo" Armstrong was perhaps the best jazz musician and the greatest entertainment personality the world has ever known. The universal popularity of jazz can be directly attributed to the infectious style of performance that "Satchmo" gave and the unselfishness that characterized his persona. He literally took New Orleans-style music from its raw origins and introduced it to the world as a refined art form. Armstrong was born in a poor section of New Orleans to an unwed mother on August 4, 1901.

(His birthplace near the corner of Tulane and Broad avenues was torn down in 1964 to make way for a new court building and police headquarters. A plaque, dedicated 100 years later, marks the site today.) During much of his youth, Armstrong worked at various unskilled jobs, including at a tailor shop owned by the Karnofsky family in the 400 block of South Rampart Street that still stands today. He also sold coal and had a youthful propensity for mischief. On a dare from a friend, he fired a pistol into the air on South Rampart Street and was arrested. Sentenced to the Colored Waif's Home in the city's Milneburg section, he eventually came under the influence of "Captain" Peter Davis. Sensing that young Armstrong possessed a burning desire to learn, Davis provided the basic musical training on the cornet to young Louis. With that kindly gesture musical history was on its way to being written. After serving his sentence, Armstrong began playing his horn in the noisy, smoke-filled musical clubs of what was termed the "Black Storyville," the section of New Orleans in the vicinity of South Liberty and Perdido streets (the present site of New Orleans City Hall).

Honing his skills by playing in early brass bands with Joe "King" Oliver, Bunk Johnson, Kid Ory and others, he ended up replacing Oliver in Ory's band in 1919 when Oliver moved to Chicago. In 1922, he was ready to join his idol, "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in Chicago. By the time of his arrival in the Windy City he had become an accomplished musician and Chicago was beginning to supplant New Orleans as the epicenter for jazz in America. He was in the right place at the right time. Much of the influence that Armstrong brought to Chicago had been acquired in New Orleans at the time jazz was evolving and developing into what would become the premier musical art form in America. But even while living like a king in Chicago (and later New York) Armstrong remained attached to and nostalgic for the New Orleans of his roots. He wrote in his autobiography, Satchmo, "There were all kinds of thrills for me in Storyville. On every corner I could hear music. And such good music...And that man Joe Oliver!

My, my, that man kept me spellbound with that horn of his." By the mid-1920s, Armstrong had surpassed in popularity even his mentors. His Hot 5 and Hot 7 bands really WERE hot! One musical innovation followed another, from his solos to his gravelly vocals to the rhythmic progressions that expanded the boundaries of the jazz genre. In the early '30s, Armstrong's popularity had reached such epic proportions that he and his band toured Europe, a major milestone for a performer, and especially a young black performer. As the years passed, Armstrong's persona and star appeal continued to grow. He enjoyed recording deals with major labels and movie deals with major Hollywood studios. He played in clubs and theaters and other major performance venues that no African American had ever performed in. He appeared in more than a dozen films with major stars of the era, toured the U.S. and abroad with popular White musicians and bandleaders and, before the advent of television, he was widely popular on the radio. As "Satchmo," (short for "Satchel Mouth," a nickname he earned for his trademark wide grin) his popularity never waned during his entire life.

He played for presidents in the White House, in palaces for European royalty and for high-ranking officials on his beloved continent of Africa. He frequently toured internationally as a special envoy for the U.S. State Department and he represented his country and New Orleans with dignity, charm and class. At every stop he made over a half century of performing, he always promoted his love for New Orleans and an avowed passion for red beans and rice. But of all the accolades he received, one of the greatest he ever cited was being selected King of Zulu during Mardi Gras 1949. The photo of him as Zulu King made the cover of TIME magazine. During his long career, Armstrong had many classic hit records, including "Stardust," "When the Saints Go Marching In," "Dream a Little Dream of Me," "Ain't Misbehavin'," "You Rascal You," "Stompin' at the Savoy," "Up a Lazy River" and many more. In early 1964, at age 62, Armstrong achieved the distinction of being the oldest musician ever to have a #1 song on the BILLBOARD charts.

His version of the popular show tune, "Hello Dolly" was the first record to knock The Beatles out of the top position they held for 14 straight weeks with three separate songs. Late in his career, when he recorded "What a Wonderful World" it was a fitting ode to the life he lived and the legacy he created. He died in New York City on July 6, 1971, a month short of his 70th birthday. He is buried in Flushing Cemetery in the New York City Borough of Queens but his greatest honors have been here in New Orleans. Two statues in New Orleans have been erected in Armstrong's honor, one on the West Bank in Algiers adjacent to the Canal Street Ferry landing, and the other in the park named for him on North Rampart Street. In 2001, his centennial year, New Orleans International Airport was renamed after him and the Satchmo SummerFest began that same year. A summer music camp for young people also bears his name. His likeness has been seen on hundreds, if not thousands of New Orleans souvenir posters, paintings and other memorabilia.

A commemorative postage stamp of him was issued on September 1, 1995 in Louis Armstrong Park. The legacy of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong will endure as long as American music is played. Airport Codes: A history and explanation of airport ABCs Airport ABCs: An Explanation of Airport Identifier Codes This article was published in the journal of the Air Line Pilots Association, Air Line Pilot, in December of 1994. I wrote it, but ALPA holds the copyright and reserves all rights other then you reading it directly on this Internet page. However please feel free to share this page with friends using Facebook or whatever. I do keep this online version updated. And if you use some of it in your writing, a little link or mention is nice, like ABC News did in their 2010 story . From ABC (Albacete, Spain) to ZRH (Zurich, Switzerland), airports around the world are universally known by a unique three-letter code: the "International Air Transport Association (IATA) Location Identifier" in aviation-speak.

It's obviously much easier for pilots, controllers, flight attendants, travel agents, frequent flyers, computers and baggage handlers to say and write ORD than the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois — but how did this practice start, and why are some airport codes easy to understand (ABE and ZRH) while others seem to make absolutely no sense (ORD)? When the Wright brothers first took to the air in 1903, there was no need for coding airports since an airport was literally any convenient field with a strong wind. However, the National Weather Service did tabulate data from cities around the country using a two-letter identification system. Early airlines simply copied this system, but as airline service exploded in the 1930's, towns without weather station codes needed identification. Some bureaucrat had a brainstorm and the three-letter system was born, giving a seemingly endless 17,576 different combinations. To ease the transition, many existing airports placed an X after the weather station code. The Los Angeles tag became LAX in 1947, Portland became PDX, Phoenix became PHX and so on. Incidentally at the historic sand dune in Kitty Hawk where the first flight occurred the U.S.

National Parks Service maintains a tiny airstrip called FFA — First Flight Airport. Many station codes are simply the first three letters of the city name: ATL is Atlanta, BOS is Boston, MIA is Miami, SIN is Singapore, MAD is Madrid, and SYD is Sydney, Australia. The first letter(s) of multiple cities served forms other codes: DFW for Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, MSP for Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, and GSP for Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina. Sometimes the city name lends itself to one letter for each word, such as Salt Lake City (SLC), Port of Spain in Trinidad & Tobago (POS), or Port au Prince, Haiti (PAP). For others, knowing the city had a former name cracks the code. So we have LED in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), SGN in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), PEK in Bejing (Peking) and BOM in Mumbai (Bombay). Most of the "hard to decipher" identifiers become obvious if one knows the name of the airport rather than the city served. A Louisiana example is ESF, for Esler Field in Alexandra.

Orly airport (ORY) and Charles De Gaulle airport (CDG) serve Paris, France, while Tokyo, Japan has the Narita airport (NRT). When you know what the code represents, some curious acronyms become obvious: MSY is the former Moisant Stock Yards in New Orleans, Named for the land where early aviator John Moisant suffered a fatal crash, stock yards that became the Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport. CMH is Columbus Municipal Hangar, BWI is Baltimore Washington International, LGW is London Gatwick, and LHR is London Heathrow! This system of identifying airports caught on quickly and soon expanded to include all radio navigation aids used by pilots. The VOR on the field at ORD sends out the Morse code for ORD. Recently some VORs not located at the airport of the same name changed identifiers to prevent possible confusion. The clearance "cross 10 miles south of Chattanooga" was confusing when the airport and VOR were five miles apart. FAA surprisingly didn't try to change the name of the city but changed the VOR, resulting in the Chattanooga Airport (CHA) and the Choo Choo VOR (GCO)!

All localizer identifiers are prefaced with an "I." Compass locators are assigned a two-letter identifier, normally using the localizer as a base. For example, at ABC the localizer might be IABC, the locator outer marker, AB, and the locator inner marker, BC. (Note, outside the US radio navigation aid naming may be much less formal.) Some special interest groups successfully lobbied the government to obtain their own special letters. The Navy saved all the new 'N' codes. Naval aviators learn to fly at NPA in Pensacola, Florida and then dream of going to "Top Gun" in Miramar, California (NKX). The Federal Communications Committee set aside the 'W' and 'K' codes for radio stations east and west of the Mississippi respectively. 'Q' was designated for international telecommunications. 'Z' was reserved for special uses. The Canadians made off with all the remaining 'Y codes which helps explain YUL for Montreal, YYC for Calgary, etc. (The start of the song YYZ by the band Rush is the Morse code for the letters Y Y Z. Rush is from Toronto.) One of the special uses for 'Z' is identifying locations in cyberspace.

What am I talking about? Well, an example is ZCX the computer address of the FAA's air traffic control headquarters central flow control facility. ZCX is not an airport but a command center just outside Washington D.C. that controls the airline traffic into major terminals. The lack of these letters puts a crimp in the logic of some codes: if the city starts with a 'N,' 'W,' or 'K,' it's time to get creative. Norfolk, Virginia, ignored the 'N' to get ORF; Newark, New Jersey, is EWR, Newport News, Virginia, chose to use the name of the airport to get PHF -Patrick Henry Field. Both Wilmington, North Carolina and Key West, Florida followed Norfolk's lead to obtain ILM and EYW. West Palm Beach in Florida did some rearranging to get PBI -Palm Beach International; Kansas City, Missouri became MKC and more recently the 'new' Kansas City airport chose MCI. (The code for Kansas City International Airport, MCI, was assigned during the early design phase of the airport when the name was going to be Mid-Continent International.

Shortly before it opened, Kansas City officials decided to change the name so people would know what city it was in. It was too late to change the code.) The continued growth of aviation world-wide meant that three letter combinations were insufficient to identify every airport. Eventually the system expanded, allowing numbers and four digit combinations; however, an airport served by scheduled route air-carrier or military airlift aircraft always has a code comprising of only three letters. Raleigh, North Carolina, not only has RDU (Raleigh/Durham International), but also the much smaller 5W5 (South Raleigh Airport), W17 (Raleigh East Airport), 2NC3 (Sky-5 helipad), and ONC4 (Wake Medical Center Heliport). The two-letter, two-number identifiers use the two-letter Post Office or supplemental abbreviation of the State for the two letters: 2ND9 is in North Dakota, 85FL is in Florida, etc. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, known as 49J when it was a general aviation airport, now has airline service and therefore a new airport identifier — HHH.

Lacking both 'W' and 'N' Washington National has a code of DCA for District of Columbia Airport. The newer Dulles airport just outside D.C. was DIA (from Dulles International Airport); however, the DIA and DCA were easy to confuse, especially when hastily written in chalk on a baggage cart, scribbled on a tag or a handwritten air traffic control strip, so we are stuck with the backwards IAD. Now one of the rules of the game is "the first and second letters or second and third letters of an identifier may not be duplicated with less than 200 nautical miles separation." Houston has HOU for the William P. Hobby airport. The 200 mile rule lead to the airport label of IAH, for the new Intercontinental Airport Houston. Louisville, Kentucky, already had an airport with the logical code of LOU; therefore, the letters for the new airport had to be something radically different: SDF stands for Standiford Field. The airport ciphers sometimes don't originate with the city or airfield name but with the county in which it resides. Longview/Kilgore in Texas is GGG, from Gregg county airport.

The 'W' in Detroit's DTW comes from Wayne county; the 'P' in Greenville's PGV comes from its location in Pitt County, North Carolina. However the John Wayne Airport serving Orange County takes its call letters from the less recognized Santa Ana (SNA). A little more geography cracks the code for CVG, MDT, ABE and GTR. Cincinnati, Ohio, has its airport located in northern Kentucky (look at a map if you don't believe me!); therefore, Cincinnati's ID actually comes from the town of Covington - CVG. Harrisburg International is physically located in Middletown, Pennsylvania (MDT). In Pennsylvania the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem & Easton are served by the ABE airport. Any Mississippi State Bulldogs' fan can tell you that Columbus, Starkville, and West Point form the Golden Triangle of Mississippi, with airline service at the Golden Triangle Regional Airport (GTR). History, rather than geography, solves the puzzle of BNA, TYS, GEG, OGG and MCO. The main airport in Nashville, Tennessee, was named in honor of Col. Harry Berry who helped build it: BNA.

Knoxville, also in Tennessee, doesn't have a single letter in common with its tag of TYS; however, a historian would know that the Tyson family donated the land in honor of their son killed in World War I. The current Orlando International Airport stands on the land that used to be McCoy Air Force Base (MCO). Spokane International Airport is coded as GEG in honor of Major Harold C. Geiger, a pioneer in Army aviation and ballooning. Geiger field was renamed in 1960 but the code was not changed. Kahului Airport, Maui, was designated as OGG in honor of aviation legend, and Lihue native, Hawaiian Airlines Capt. Bertram James 'Jimmy' Hogg ( and subject of a nice Air Line Pilot magazine story ). One of the world's largest airports, JFK, is also one of the very few that changed call letters. A change is rare because an identifier becomes so well known to airline staff that changes are not normally permitted. Interestingly the John F. Kennedy airport's former code also came from the name of the field — IDL for Idlewild airport (itself named for the Idlewild golf course whose land became JFK).

If you knew that Fort Myers used to be called SouthWest Florida Regional, the RSW moniker starts to make sense. A code used by American Airlines but never seen by the traveling public is GSW. Pilots spend months at GSW, but no planes land or take-off there. The mystery is solved when you discover that Americans' Flight Academy, with its many simulators and classrooms, is in Ft. Worth on the former site of the Greater SouthWest Airport. A airport that has worked hard to change its given code is Sioux City's Sioux Gateway Airport — SUX. Mayor Craig Berenstein described the SUX code as an "embarrassment". City leaders petitioned the FAA to change the code in 1998 and again in 2002. At one point the FAA offered the city five alternatives — GWU, GYO, GYT, SGV and GAY — but airport trustees didn't like any of them enough to change. In 2007 the airport made the best of their sucky cipher and started promoting the airport with the slogan "FLY SUX." There are other fun ones. FAT is Fresno, California.

DUM is in Dumai, Indonesia, whie Norway's Bodo Airport is BOO. Harbour, Eolie Island, in Italy is ZIP. Headingly, Australia, is HIP. Hot Springs, Arkansas, is HOT. And Willow, Alaska, is WOW. Years ago, entire metropolitan areas were given a code to include many airports; NYC covered New York City and LON signified London. Unfortunately there are no new metropolitan area codes due to the scarcity of letters. These codes provide the ability to quickly look up in a computerized reservation system all the flights to a certain city without using separate codes for each airport. Entering WAS as a designation will give me the next few flights to BWI, IAD and DCA — the Washington, D.C. area. In fact, three letter codes are so scarce that after a year they can be recycled: when Idlewild Airport became JFK, the old IDL tag was retired then reused for Indianola, Mississippi. Airlines use the three-letter codes internationally in their own network, Sita, for messages such as passenger loads and departure times.

World ATC and weather agencies use a separate teleprinter network, the Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunications Network (AFTN), which uses a four-letter "location indicator." Going from large area to actual airport, the first letter relates to the part of the world and the second letter the country. The third letter is a group of airports within that country. Most countries who use this particular convention use a letter to denote the FIR in which the airport is located. So F is Frankfurt FIR in Germany, M is Munich; P is Paris FIR, M is Marseilles. Other ways to use the third letter include identifying a group of airports with a common factor. For example, A was used in Germany for all Canadian and American air force bases. The last letter positively identifies a specific airport. Thus Aberdeen, Scotland, has the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) location indicator of EGPD — E for Northern Europe, G for United Kingdom, P for Scottish region, and D for Dyce field. Want to figure out LFPG? It's L for southern Europe, F for France, P for Paris FIR, and G for Charles de Gaulle airport. Easy! Some are more easy to remember.

The Dominican Republic codes all start with M (Central America) and D (Dominican) and then, well, see if you spot the code for international airports in Santo Domingo (MDSD), La Romana (MDLR), Puerto Plata (MDPP), Punta Cana (MDPC) and Santiago (MDST). So if London Heathrow has two codes — and it does, LHR and EGLL — how come I've heard Chicago O'Hare only called ORD? The answer is unique to the United States and Canada. In the 48 contiguous States the ICAO code is formed simply by adding a "K" to the three letter code (or by adding a "C" in Canada). This explains why international flight plans refer to KORD, KMIA, KJFK, etc. A meeting of two rules is Key West, the FAA code is EYW (lose the 'K') and the IATA code is KEYW (add a 'K') which works great for KEY West. Other airports within FAA jurisdiction have ICAO codes usually formed by taking two letters from the FAA name and prefixing them with PA for Alaska, PH for Hawaii, or PG for Guam.

PT appears to be Pacific Trust Territories (Pohnpei, Yap, Chuuk, etc.), and there are various random other P codes like PWAK for Wake Island. While most U.S. airports have the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, note I didn't say all do. Scenic Sedona Airport in Arizona is assigned SEZ by the FAA and SDX by the IATA. Because for international airlines SEZ is Seychelles International Airport in Mahï¿½, Seychelles. Another is the Hilton Head airport in South Carolina mentioned earlier. It's IATA code is HHH, but it's FAA three letter code is HXD. Instrument pilots are familiar with another type of identifier, not for an airport or navigation aid but simply for a point in space. Every airway intersection is a five letter, supposedly pronounceable, combination, from AADCO to ZZARP. Just like airports, some fixes are named after towns: close to Raleigh, N.C., are DUHAM (over Durham) and CHAPL (over Chapel Hill) intersections. Some are named after people or events, and others are named just for fun: BORED, BUILT, BUTCH.

The excellent book Chasing The Glory, by Michael Parfit, introduces us to the woman who names intersections, Macho Irene. She dreams of some pompous B-747 captain saying, "Roger, will report MUMMI." From LA to DUHAM, identifiers have grown in complexity and are now used as computer codes in vast reservations systems and flight management computers. The latest trend in bag-tagging technology is laser printed bar codes for automated luggage systems. Will # ## # ## ever completely replace DFW? The answer may be found at DIA, the new Denver International Airport which used identifier DVX when the runways opened for testing, but inherited the familiar DEN code when Denver's Stapleton airport closed down. Oh, still wondering about the world's busiest airport, O'Hare International, and its ORD code? Well once upon a time, before the editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Colonel Robert McCormick suggested a name change as tribute to pilot Lt. Cmdr. Edward "Butch" O'Hare, United States Navy, there was an airstrip well to the northwest of Chicago with a quaint, peaceful name — Orchard Field.

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport - Wikidata Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport airport near New Orleans, LA, USA Moisant Field Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport 0 references Cite this page This page was last modified on 30 December 2016, at 15:15. All structured data from the main and property namespace is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License ; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport - Airport Facilities Airport Facilities To view a map of our terminals, please click Terminals . Charging Stations There are numerous locations throughout the facility (pre and post security) for you to plug in and charge your phone, tablet or other mobile device. The Airport has also partnered with Mobile Qubes to provide you the option to rent or buy a qube capable of charging many different devices. Look for Mobile Qubes kiosks located in Baggage Claim and on each Concourse. Currency Exchange and Business Center (Travelex) is open located in the West Terminal near United and Delta Air Lines ticket counters.

Their hours of operation are: Sunday 7am - 7pm Friday 7am - 7pm Saturday 5am - 7pm They offers foreign currency exchange, travel insurance, photocopies, fax services, emergency cash, conference room rental and wire money transfers. Western Union at the office closes at 6:30 p.m. The entire airport is free of any architectural barriers to the handicapped. For TTY calls, contact the Louisiana Relay Service by dialing 711 and request 504-303-7700 (Airport Communications). Visual Paging is available throughout the airport in conjunction with the Flight Information Display Monitors (FIDS). Whitney Bank is located above the Concourse C Checkpoint in the Parabola Lobby. Services offered include cash advances on credit cards, traveler's checks, money orders, foreign currency exchange, and ATM machines. Hours of operation are: Monday-Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays (closed) ATM machines are located throughout the terminal, pre and post security.

Lost and Found Be sure to check out our Lost and Found page which will allow to search the items that have been turned in. The Customer Service Department retains items that have been lost in the public areas of the terminal ( with the exception of the concourse checkpoints operated by the Transportation Security Administration[TSA] ). The office is located on the Upper Level in the Concourse C Lobby near the Airport Police. Lost and Found is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. You can contact them at (504) 303-7790. Unclaimed items that have been turned in to Lost and Found are donated to charity after 3 years. Persons losing items in the airline exclusive areas (i.e. ticket counters, gate areas, or airplanes) should check with that particular airline's baggage office located in the Baggage Claim area. For items that may have been left at the security checkpoints, please contact the TSA Lost and Found at 504-463-2251. Passengers can expect a next business day response from TSA.

The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport offers free Wi-Fi (wireless Internet service), making travel easier by enabling airport visitors to stay connected to their home or office. Use wireless-enabled portable electronics to surf the Web, send and receive e-mail, and access corporate networks in 85 percent of the airport terminal's main level, which includes most gates, sitting areas and food courts. Airport travelers can get real-time flight arrival and departure updates from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport Web site, browse information about the retail and restaurant offerings in the airport, and get the latest travel tips. To access the wireless network at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, ensure that you are on the main terminal/departure level of the terminal. See the map below for access points. Set the wireless card properties to the default configuration or DHCP-enabled. Select "LANOIA_FREE_WIFI" as the wireless network under Wireless Network Connection or the appropriate network configuration application in your operating system.

Start your web browser and at the Splash Page click on the "Click to Continue" link to accept the terms and conditions of the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) Click on the "click HERE to continue to the internet" link to access the Internet *Please note that Wi-Fi speeds are restricted to 144k due to state law.

Question: After whom is the New Orleans main airport named?
Answer: LOUIS ARMSTRONG